From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 21:45:10 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH Message-ID: <20170329014510.C60D718C083@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> > From: Grant Taylor > However, I've had to teach enough people to know that they need a way to > boot strap themselves into an environment to start learning. Right, but wouldn't they learn more from a clear and concise hand-holding which explains what they are doing and why - 'do this which does that to get this'? There is no more a royal road to knowing a system, than there is to mathematics. > I do consider what (I believe) Warren put together for the UUCP project > to be a very good start. Simple how to style directions that are easy > to follow that yield a functional system. Exactly.... Noel